Building Parallel Applications using Axum

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re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

Peter.O — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:22:54 GMT

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DevLabs Releases Axum -- Programming Language for Parallel Processing

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:37:32 GMT

Axum enables developers to easily build scalable and reliable applications for multi-core and many-core

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

Adam — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:36:55 GMT

I've been waiting for something like this in .NET. It will be cool to get a heavy-weight sample up and running on some serious hardware to see what it does :)

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

.NET Programmer — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:40:11 GMT

Is there any other link to know more about parellel applications? When do we build parellel applications?

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

phillips.joshua — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:42:54 GMT

Hi .NET Programmer,

A great resource for parallel programming at Microsoft is http://msdn.com/concurrency. You can find tons of information there about what we're doing in Visual Studio 2010 and beyond as well as links to other parallel computing resources.

When do we build parallel applications?

Well, there's no short answer but I would look at the manycore shift white paper (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=633F9F08-AAD9-46C4-8CAE-B204472838E1&displaylang=en) to understand why parallel computing is important (and necessary) in the first place. From there, it's not a matter of "when do we build parallel applications," it's a matter of "is it possible to parallelize my application and how do I do it?"

Thanks for the great question!

Josh Phillips

Program Manager

Parallel Computing Platform

Microsoft

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

Trumpeter — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:48:20 GMT

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re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

Trumpeter — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:48:20 GMT

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

mdude — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:32:19 GMT

Any plans to support Axum on gpus?

How does Axum compare with OpenMP/MPI?

Thanks.

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

Josh Phillips — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:10:48 GMT

Hi Trumpeter, the Axum blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/maestroteam) and Programmer's Guide/Language Specification that are included on the Dev Labs site are full of technical information. If there is a question you have that isn't answered in those documents, please post a question on our forum.

mdude,

Great question! No plans yet to support Axum on GPUs but its definitely something we're starting to think about.

OpenMP is a set of pragma directives for C++ that give the programmer some level of data parallelism (like Parallel For). This is really an extension of an existing language and model. Axum is an entirely new managed language that presents an entirely different model to get scalable and safe concurrency: agents.

MPI is a set of APIs that are the de facto standard for communication between nodes in a distributed memory parallel application. MPI is really about the communication between "agents" while Axum is more about the whole picture, including messaging, isolation, and the agents. MPI and Axum networks also share some patterns that are useful for message-passing systems, such as joins, broadcast, etc.

Keep up the great questions!

Josh Phillips

Program Manager

Parallel Computing Platform

Microsoft

Creación de aplicaciones paralelas mediante Axum

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re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

decatec — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:48:13 GMT

Will Axum be a complete different syntax or will you merge it into the C#/VB.NET languages?

Something like a "parallel mode" for C#/VB.NET would be ideal for the existing large codebases ...

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

phillips.joshua — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:42:23 GMT

Hi decatec,

Axum is an incubation project to help us test out the features and concepts without polluting other established general programming languages.

It's very much conceivable that any of those concepts could end up in more mainstream languages but we have no plans to do so as of yet. If you feel strongly that a certain language is lacking a feature in Axum that you find useful or crucial, it's important that you provide that feedback to us in our forum or blog!

A "parallel mode" that would automatically parallelize existing code bases is just about the "Holy Grail" of parallel computing and it's incredibly difficult and complex. It's also a very hot topic of research.

We're taking one step at a time as evidenced with .NET 4 technologies like PLINQ and Parallel.For, which bring you one step closer to automatic parallelization but still require careful handling of shared state.

Thanks for the question!

Josh

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art_scott@msn.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:07:52 GMT

Axum relationship to F#?

It's great to see work being done on the critical challenge of today and the days to come.

Thanks,

Art

re: Building Parallel Applications using Axum

phillips.joshua — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:46:35 GMT

Hi Art,

Axum currently has no direct relationship to F# though its obvious that some Axum concepts compliment F# and vice versa. Potentially more important is how Axum can benefit the F# audience. Scalable distributed programming models and productivity gains realized through safety are quite attractive to the verticals where F# has garnered a following.

I'm glad you asked this question. We're currently exploring how Axum might look as part of other languages.

Keep a look out on our blog! http://blogs.msdn.com/maestroteam

Thanks,

Josh